{"id":55646,"date":"2017-06-17T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55646"},"modified":"2017-06-17T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:57:00","slug":"catching-up-with-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55646","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Camero<\/strong>n &#8212; always amazed when theology makes its way into politics ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I missed this when it first appeared, but wanted to capture it now I&#8217;ve found it (via a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ifZeUVwzfek\"><strong>Lewis Black<\/strong> routine<\/a>) &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is important to remember that amateurs built the Ark and it was the professionals that built the Titanic. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/my_ccu\">@my_ccu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Nqod4sicS\">pic.twitter.com\/6Nqod4sicS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben &amp; Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealBenCarson\/status\/659777986854559744\">October 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems the amateur theologian <strong>Ben Carson<\/strong> &#8212; who relies heavily on his professional status as a neurosurgeon for credibility &#8212; thinks amateurs get the job done way better than professionals. Whether that opinion will lead to better ship-building by, eg, Hyundai, Samsung and Daewoo is another question: they may or may not take note of Biblical precedent in this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; always amazed when theology makes its way into politics ] . I missed this when it first appeared, but wanted to capture it now I&#8217;ve found it (via a Lewis Black routine) &#8212; It is important to remember that amateurs built the Ark and it was the professionals that built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,371,1501,695,187,676,523,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur","category-humor","category-industry","category-korea","category-politics","category-scriptures","category-theology","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55648,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55646\/revisions\/55648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}